6.06 - TEXT ADVENTURE AHOY

[lightofeilia]

So this one was something I came up on the spot with, but I think it's just time to have some fun.

I am a protagonist in a video game very similar to Final Fantasy *cough cough*. Anyone can begin an opening scene and we can run multiple adventures at a time. I will respond with a COMMAND and we'll keep going from there. It's probably best if I demonstrate this:

OPENING:

You lie awake in what appears to be your bedroom. The ceiling is drab and looks to be the colour of vomit, and there's a couple of gross spider webs at the corners. The air in the room smells unnaturally clean. Almost as if you're in a hospital. The room is quite dark, the curtains are drawn (but your face is not). The door looks as if it could fall apart at any time.

(at this point, I'll start with a command, as is general in text based games) Me: - LOOK AROUND

(here, you can respond to my command of "LOOK AROUND" with whatever you want)You: - Do I really have to repeat the opening for you? Jeez, stay awake, will you? Bedroom. Ceiling. Vomit. Hospital. Please give me something more productive to work with.

Me: - EXAMINE DOOR

You: It's locked! HOW NOW BROWN COW??

Me: - KICK DOOR

You: With a STR Stat of -12, you fail miserably. You hear a clanking sound coming from the direction of the door.

and so on and so forth! Most commands in text-based games are pretty simple. I will be providing the commands, and your job is to provide a description. Don't worry about story, just let it go wherever! If you've responded at least 3 times I'll award you 30 points (10 points for each response). Feel free to go more though!

Anyone can start their own opening if they wish. If you're not sure and you would rather not do a description, feel free to try a command as well! Generally they go in the form of VERB OBJECT ("USE KEY", "ATTACK ZOMBIE") etc.

HAVE FUN!

EDITED BECAUSE I AM UNCLEAR.

- Feel free to start an adventure by being a writer and writing an opening scene to which others can PLAY by giving you commands in response to your scene and you respond back to them.
- Feel free to PLAY an adventure by responding to other people's scenes.
- I will award 30 points to at least 3 responses (doesn't matter if you're playing or writing)

I hope that's clearer, I'm really sorry it was so confusing at the beginning!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[lightofeilia]

ASk them here! I realize the instructions may not have been clear, lol.

Re: QUESTIONS

[glacialphoenix]

It's in minigames, so... uh, are there any points for this?

Re: QUESTIONS

[lightofeilia]

If you've responded at least 3 times I'll award you 30 points (10 points for each response). Feel free to go more though!

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

There is a field of flowers, it is the most beautiful field that has ever fielded. There is a tree with one of the old fashioned swings and a light breeze is endeavoring to push it back and forth and off in the distance there is a wooded grove that is separated from meadow by a little stream. In the distance birds are chirping and everything seems to be peachy keen.

[lightofeilia]

> STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Roses? I happen to like roses as a matter of fact, they are so pretty with their velvet petals and there is this nice nearly-june buzz filtering around them.. where the air is nice and cloying and you think the air may be power lines.

I lean down to smell the roses, and realize that buzzing noise... it isn't just atmospheric.

ITS A BEE, OMG!

[ets]

> KILL BIRDS AND SET FLOWERS ON FIRE FOR EXP

[glacialphoenix]

You are in...

Well, crap. It's kind of hard to work it out. You're a little dizzy, a little disoriented, and you don't know where the hell you are.

This is not a good start to your day.

There's a BED, a TABLE and a DOOR leading WEST. The door is closed.

Exits: (W)est [closed].

[lightofeilia]

[EEEP, I supppose I should have explained that things in CAPS can be interacted with, lol.]

> EAT TABLE

[glacialphoenix]

Time to settle that primal hunger. You're so ravenous, you could eat a horse.

Well, there's no horse in sight, so you settle for the nearest object, which is the hapless TABLE.

You chow down on it.

Tastes like chicken. Or maybe that's the product of your FEVERED MIND. Is your mind even fevered? How would you tell, anyway?

Whatever. It's clearly important enough that the bastard writing this thing decided to capitalize it.

There is a BED and a DOOR leading WEST. The door is closed.

(I)nventory: FEVERED MIND.
Exits: (W)est [closed]

[ets]

> EXAMINE COURT RECORD POCKETS

[glacialphoenix]

You rummage through the deep and dangerous depths of your pockets and turn up the following:

BADGE This badge has seen better days.

PEPPERMINT You got this from that restaurant you ate at... last week.

POCKET LINT Lots of it.

ART PIECE It's... sort of blobby. Probably "postmodernist".

Also, you sort of maybe think you might have something on tomorrow, but you're not sure, because your head is still pounding like someone's setting up IKEA furniture in there.

[breyzyyin]

[Lolz, I hope I am doing this right! This is Breyzy, BTW...I'll say that here in case Yin swings by later to participate!]

You are in a night club. All you can hear is loud techno music that makes your head hurt. There is a BAR to your right, a DANCE FLOOR full of PEOPLE DANCING to your left, and behind you a DOOR leading out surrounded by bouncers blocking your way.

[lightofeilia]

> FLIRT WITH PEOPLE DANCING

[breyzyyin]

You are in a parking lot, with no one in sight and about ten cars parked in a row to your right. There's a store to the left, and it's closed. Which means you're out of luck for munchies...darn it!

...I have no idea what I'm doing, so I'm sorry this is so horrible! XD

[lightofeilia]

>BREAK INTO STORE

[marukyu_tofu]

It's beautiful.

The rolling plains, the clear blue sky, the faraway mountains and the delightful breeze... well, the rather stiff breeze, really. Kind of windy.

Oh, and you're falling.

Your airship exploded like a minute ago, but that's ok, 'cos you weren't in it. Instead, you'd been grappling with a pair of screechy... bird... things, which had a rather uncomfortable interest in your body. Fortunately, one of them was dead, and you'd managed to defend your virtue with a knee to the cloaca.

Unfortunately, without Kidnap McGeese groping your arse, gravity has asserted its own implacable hold on your delightful derrire, and you've heard that she's a rather... forceful... lover.

What do you do?

[glacialphoenix]

I am a beautiful and unique snowflake.

>levitate

[ets]

> SUMMON BAHAMUT FOR A RIDE

[ets]

It is pitch black.
You may be eaten by a grue.

[glacialphoenix]

> hide in corner whimpering because it's dark and I can't see OH MY GOD SOMEONE HELP ME

[lightofeilia]

The room crystallizes into view, eating away the darkness in your vision. How is that possible? Are your retinas kind of like a television screen? You will never find out.. because it's not important. It's small, cramped cave with nothing but a huge CRYSTAL floating in the center. It's pulsating slightly, like a heart gone haywire from listening to too much dubstep, but it's beautiful all the same.

Exits: NONE.

[ceiling_fan]

>Touch the crystal.

[ceiling_fan]

You are in a tight bind. Your eyes are open but you can't see. Your smell fermenting coffee ground, not bad if you aren't in this predicament. You feel the dripping of water onto your toes.

Time for a Journey!

[alkonost_storm]

You find yourself sitting in the middle of a vast desert wasteland. Looking around, you can see there is fine, golden sand all around with a particularly large dune topped by some posts--road markers?--at the top. One of them has some kind of cloth attached and it is flapping merrily in the breeze. The dune looks quite big; it could serve as a promontory to get the lay of the land.